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RUFFLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having decorative ruffles or frills
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shaken into waves or undulations as by wind
Example:
with ruffled flags flying
Synonyms:
rippled; ruffled
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (physically disturbed or set in motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ruffle
Context examples:
There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He then sat in deep thought for a time, and I could see by his ruffled brow that this grim discovery had not, in his opinion, advanced us much in our inquiry.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My aunt, a little ruffled by the combat, marched past them into the house, with great dignity, and took no notice of their presence, until they were announced by Janet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Shrouded in a thick veil and armed with a genteel traveling basket, she departed, feeling that a cool drive would soothe her ruffled spirit and fit her for the labors of the day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Never had the peaceful atmosphere of the old Cistercian house been so rudely ruffled.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Peggotty ruffled his hair again, with both hands, as a further preparation for what he was going to say, and went on, with a hand upon each of his knees: There was a certain person as had know'd our Em'ly, from the time when her father was drownded; as had seen her constant; when a babby, when a young gal, when a woman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"You ought to have sent word, or told me this morning, and you ought to have remembered how busy I was," continued Meg petulantly, for even turtledoves will peck when ruffled.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Yet, when he came with bowed head and humble entreaty for forgiveness, he was met with a handful of small silver from Sir Nigel, whose dame, however, was less charitably disposed, being much ruffled in her dignity by the manner in which she had been hustled from her lord's side.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Dora's aunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhat masculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although my aunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora's aunts, by expressing heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, she loved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities to the general harmony.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
